AFTERGLOW
VALLE DEI VENTI, 490 x 610 mm, oils, pastels, wax and mixed media on canvas panel, 2021
AFTERGLOW SERIES
The series (still in progress) takes its title from Jorge Luis Borges’s poem Afterglow
Sunset is always disturbing
whether theatrical or muted,
but still more disturbing
is that last desperate glow
that turns the plain to rust
when on the horizon nothing is left
of the pomp and clamor of the setting sun.
How hard holding onto that light, so tautly drawn and different,
that hallucination which the human fear of the dark
imposes on space
and which ceases at once
the moment we realize its falsity,
the way a dream is broken
the moment the sleeper knows he is dreaming.
VAL DI FIEMME, 560 x 1220 mm, acrylics, oils, pastels and mixed media on panel, 2022
GARDEN OF JOYS AND SORROWS, 915 x 1215 mm, oils, pastels, wax and mixed media on canvas, 2021
VALLE DEL TRAMONTO, 900 x 1205 mm, oils, pastels, wax and mixed media on canvas, 2021
VALLE DEI GRIGI, 360 x 510 mm, oils, pastels, wax and mixed media on handmade paper, 2021
VALLE DELL’ ANAPO, 300 x 400mm (unframed), acrylics, pastels, wax and mixed media on paper, 2022
VAL DI NON, acrylics, oils, charcoal and mixed media on hessian on panel, 900 x 650 x 60mm, 2022